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Making Sense of Sexuality

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   By Andrew Bunt | Thursday 20 December 2018

   For many people, the Bible’s teaching on sexuality and gender just
   doesn’t make sense. (And that probably includes a lot of people in our
   churches!) 'How can God expect people to live in such a way that they
   have to deny who they really are?' 'How can such oppressive ideas claim
   to be good news?' This should make us stop and think. If we’re going to
   help people to see and live out the beauty of God’s plan for sexuality
   and gender, we need to understand why it doesn’t currently make sense
   to them. We need to understand the stories they are believing which
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   Some of the most helpful teaching I have heard on the topic of identity
   and sexuality was given by Tim and Kathy Keller at an event hosted
   earlier this year by Living Out. At the event, Tim and Kathy helped us
   to understand different ways that identity is formed and how they
   impact on understandings of sexuality. The teaching is incredibly
   helpful as we think about issues of sexuality, but it is also hugely
   helpful and relevant to so many other areas of life.

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   In the third session, Kathy Keller outlines some of the practical
   implications when applied to issues of sexuality and gender, exploring
   what kind of churches we need to become in order to be able to help
   those who are LGBTQ+. She considers what we must do, what we must say,
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     * identity
     * kathy keller
     * sexuality
     * tim keller

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